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While walking down the trail your holding your bag of food in one hand, and a bag of booze & coffee in the other, you cannot stop an put them away because the section of the trail you are on is very rocky and narrow. You suddenly slip and loose your footing falling, luckily your able to grab a branch of a tree, but now your hanging, suspended 50 ft in the air and the only way you can possibly climb up is to drop one of the bags. Your two nights away from the trailhead, you have 2 bars & a some gorp in your pack belt. You lost you fishing pole during the fall. Which bag would you drop:

The coffee and booze get ditched! But hey- you are a lot more coordinated than I am- how to you grab a branch without dropping what is in your hand anyway? Me- if I fell like that - all items in both hands would be long gone. Decision made.

PS I never take booze anyway. My dilema is usually when the bear can is full, do I put coffee or "real food" in the bag that I hang in the tree? I usually hang the coffee because I figure bears would less likely get satisfaction from coffee. But it is a mighty hard decision.

Only two nights away?Drop the food and save the "goodies"...No doubt about my priorities, can easily do without food for a day - maybe still catch a few trout sans pole - still have my reel/hooks - right?, and can probably barter for food if...